Envelopes – wrappers – and paperboard boxes – Paperboard box – With closure for an access opening
Reexamination Certificate
2007-02-12
2009-12-01
Elkins, Gary E (Department: 3782)
Envelopes, wrappers, and paperboard boxes
Paperboard box
With closure for an access opening
C206S273000, C229S160100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07624913
ABSTRACT:
An elongate laminar blank for forming a hinge-lid container has a box-defining portion and a lid-defining portion connected along a transverse hinge line. The lid-defining portion of the blank comprises: a lid rear wall panel extending from the transverse hinge line; a lid top wall panel connected to the lid rear wall panel along a first transverse fold line; a lid front wall panel connected to the lid top wall panel along a second transverse fold line and having an opposed outer transverse edge; a pair of opposed trapezoidal lid inner side wall panels connected to the lid rear wall panel on either side thereof along a first pair of longitudinal fold lines; and a pair of opposed trapezoidal lid outer side wall panels connected to the lid front wall panel on either side thereof along a second pair of longitudinal fold lines, each trapezoidal lid outer side wall panel having an angled outer edge. The outer transverse edge of the lid front wall panel, the second pair of longitudinal fold lines and respective angled outer edges of the trapezoidal lid outer side wall panels converge at either end of the outer transverse edge and in that the length of the trapezoidal lid outer side wall panels in the longitudinal direction of the blank is greater than the length of the trapezoidal lid inner side wall panels.
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Buchanan & Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Elkins Gary E
Philip Morris USA Inc.
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